Huge white trees tower into the sky, with barrel-thick vines twining around their branches like pythons, deeply rooted in the water. The huge umbrella-shaped canopy looks like a giant stretching its arms, embracing countless people below.
White fruit with complex red veins.
Like the nerves and blood vessels in a living body, the pale tendrils spontaneously weave into a network and adhere firmly to the eggshell.
The surface of the heavy white egg is as smooth as glass, reflecting the red light emitted by the fire-colored energy stone in the cave, giving the white egg itself the illusion of glowing light.
Zhang Zhuxun could sense very weak energy fluctuations in the nearby white eggs, but it was most likely caused by the eggshell itself. The snake species wrapped inside were probably not in good condition, and lacked maternal energy activation for a long time.
, the young species are forced to sleep.
In comparison, the egg wrapped around Zhang Haike was obviously much more active.
Zhang Zhuxun could even smell the smell of blood that belonged to the Zhang family. He swam in that direction, trying to send out signals to find similar people while swimming.
It was not until he swam under the canopy of the tree where the white eggs hung that the sensory tentacles emitted picked up a very subtle response. Zhang Zhuxun tried to distinguish it and found that it turned out to be an anxious distress signal.
Zhang Zhuxun felt strange. He stretched his head and looked up, and saw that the surface of the white egg was even brighter. The eggshell gradually became thinner, revealing the dark shadow of a human figure struggling inside.
"..." This guy couldn't have stayed in there for too long and drowned, right?
Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. Zhang Zhuoxun frowned, so why didn't he feel any discomfort after soaking in egg white twice? Could it be that Zhang Haike had malabsorption?
The long oval white egg shook even more violently. Seeing this, the mother tree asked the surrounding vines to branch out a few tendrils to help fix the naughty egg.
Then Zhang Zhuoxun saw that the lines on the semi-fuzzy inner wall of the eggshell suddenly came to life, stretching out long and thin tentacles like an octopus to tie up Zhang Haike tightly.
Zhang Haike was trapped in the shell, already lacking oxygen and on the verge of suffocation, and now he had no room for resistance.
Suddenly there was a sound of breaking through the air, and Zhang Haike's blurred vision saw a white blade thrust into the cage like lightning. The cage that he could not open no matter how hard he tried was so easily cut straight to the bottom with a knife.
There seemed to be a broken mirror in front of him. Zhang Haike pushed it outward hard, and with a crash, the cage collapsed completely.
Zhang Haike's whole body was like a white fish escaping from the net, falling back into the water with a smooth motion.
Afraid of being hit, Zhang Zhuxun quickly swam far away to dodge. Looking at the large splash of water caused by the heavy objects falling in the pool, he realized his embarrassment belatedly.
After observing for a while, Zhang Haike quickly adapted to floating on the surface after falling into the water. Zhang Zhuxun put away the magic knife, swam silently behind a thick tree vine that protruded from the water, climbed out of the water, and emerged from the space.
He took out a set of training uniforms and put them on, then took out a new waterproof bag to organize his equipment.
Zhang Haike emerged from the water, panting rapidly. He wiped the water from his face, his ears suddenly twitched, he quickly turned his head and stared in one direction, and shouted: "Who is there?!"
Zhang Zhuoxun poked his head out from behind the vines, smiled upon seeing this, and raised his hand towards him, "Come over here."
Zhang Haike stared at his face, a little surprised, his lips moved slightly, thinking of something, he swallowed back the words he was about to say.
He swam over in the water, held on to the tree vines, and looked at Zhang Zhuxun carefully. After a while, he said, "Why does your face look like this?"
He knew that Zhang Zhuxun did not wear a human skin mask like a normal disguise before, but directly changed the outline of his face and the attached growing flesh. He always thought that this was irreversible, just like his face.
Zhang Zhuoxun was stunned when he heard this. He subconsciously touched his cheek and looked at the water. He found that his face looked a little strange, but the sharpness between his eyebrows was vaguely familiar.
This is...his own face!
Zhang Zhuxun quickly realized that it seemed that due to his previous evolution, he not only shed his old skin, but also restored his original appearance.
He briefly told Zhang Haike what had happened before, and asked him how his evolution was going.
Zhang Haike sighed and shook his head, "Although I had some hopes before coming here, it is obvious that I am not suitable as a snake species."
As he spoke, he stretched out his arm and patted Zhang Chuxun's shoulder vigorously, "I once promised an old friend to help her find a snake species that can accept the inheritance, and now, the hope of their entire family will be pinned on you."
"Are you trying to trick me?" Zhang Zhuxun had a gut feeling that something was wrong. He didn't even want to ask why. He threw him a set of training uniforms and said coldly, "You have a good idea."
Zhang Haike didn't mean to explain in detail. He stood up from the water and said while putting on his clothes: "They will find you, and you will need their help in the future."
Zhang Zhuoxun chuckled and was noncommittal. He already had enough troubles, who could bear to take on one more trouble? He wasn't so idle that it hurt.
"Where were those two guys dragged by the vines?" Zhang Haike decisively changed the subject and asked.
"They were not chosen." Zhang Zhuxun confirmed, "There is no smell of Wu Xie and Fatty staying here."
Hearing this, Zhang Haike climbed up high, looked around, then looked back at the huge tree behind him, and said thoughtfully: "It seems that the one in front of me is not the original body of this ancestral tree.
It should just be a separated part of it, so that it can be easily explored and identified from the outside world to find young species suitable for hatching."
This cave is so high that you can't see the top. In the gaps between the flaming stones around it, there are countless dark caves, the smallest ones are only the size of a fist, and the big ones are even as big as millstones.
Zhang Zhuxun threw his backpack on his back, carefully felt the fluctuating smell, pointed to a medium-sized hole in the stone wall and said, "Go this way, I feel that the smell there is a bit familiar."
Zhang Haike had no objection and nodded: "Okay."
The two of them found a shortcut and swam over, climbed up the stone wall, and got into the hole.
There are many irregular scratches on the stone wall inside the cave. Zhang Haike stabbed hard with his dagger, leaving very slight marks that can hardly be seen if you are not careful.
He speculated: "It seems that these scratches were left by the crawling snake species that were successfully hatched here a long time ago. Well, there are more than one."
Zhang Zhuxun suspected that he was talking nonsense and retorted: "This is obviously left behind by some kind of reptile with very sharp claws. No matter how hard the snake's scales are, it can only scrape off some stone foam."
As he spoke, he scratched the cave wall with his fingernails a few times and stretched out his hand to show him, "Look, there's no trace of Mozi at all."
When Zhang Haike heard this, his expression was somewhat meaningful, "How can you be sure that the hatched snake species will definitely be in the form of the original snake?"